Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard began as a school for white male divinity students," Bynum said. "Each case of expansion involves a rethinking of what it means to be an educational institution. We are not to be tarred with the brush of 50 years...
Southern Californians have grown almost blase about their recurrent forest and brush fires, flash floods and mud slides. Indeed, some were able to grasp their Bloody Marys on the morning after last week's disaster and joke about their survival. Yet there is something singularly shattering to the serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
...serious, intense, one to be trusted. He was, after all, a friend of Father Philip Berrigan's-a close friend, he would add. True, there was something in his attitude, a superficiality, that caused some to question him. But whenever doubts were raised, those close to Berrigan would brush them aside. Their trust in Boyd F. Douglas was implicit. It was also misplaced; he is the informer upon whose testimony the Government's conspiracy charges against Berrigan and five other defendants depend heavily (TIME cover...
...vanishing art. Better action photography and bigger picture layouts are taking over the space in sports sections once saved for interpretive cartoons. Television's instant replays engrave images on a sports fan's mind that cannot be duplicated with the same drama the next day in brush strokes and ink. Today's sports editors can spare neither column inches nor salary for sports cartoonists-not even for the likes of Willard Mullin...
Died. Henry Varnum Poor, 82, muralist, ceramist, painter, architect and art teacher; of a heart attack; in New City, N.Y. Known first for his pottery, Poor in the mid-1930s took his brush to Washington, D.C., where he executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public...